The Study of Ajax and Other Interesting Web Technologies

Merb 1.0 Released

After two years of development, the first serious contender to challenge Ruby on Rails in the area of Ruby web application frameworks has reached 1.0 status: Merb. Created by Ezra Zugmuntowicz, Merb is built to be lightweight, less monolithic than Rails--i.e., you have your own choice of ORM, JavaScript, and templating frameworks--as well as thread-safe (which Rails, prior to the upcoming version 2.2 at least, was not).

You can get the gem from RubyForge with (something like) the following :
$ sudo gem install merb --include-dependencies

(Alternative site: —source http://edge.merbivore.com)

You can then generate your first Merb project and run it with the following:
$ merb-gen app my_application
$ cd my_application
$ merb